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Preliminary findings for Pulau Jerejak Leper Settlement: reconstructing the built and living environment of Camp 5

The purpose of this paper is to share the historical development of Camp 5, a leper camp on Pulau Jerejak. Pulau Jerejak Leper Settlement was operated from 1871 until 1969. The settlement has been an important collection center for leprosy patients in British Malaya before Sungai Buloh Leper Settlem...

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Main Authors: Ch'ng, Hui Jiun, Lim, Yong Long, Ng, Xin Yi
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Language:English
Published: 2014
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TH Building construction
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spelling my.utm.614842017-08-30T08:57:32Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/61484/ Preliminary findings for Pulau Jerejak Leper Settlement: reconstructing the built and living environment of Camp 5 Ch'ng, Hui Jiun Lim, Yong Long Ng, Xin Yi TH Building construction The purpose of this paper is to share the historical development of Camp 5, a leper camp on Pulau Jerejak. Pulau Jerejak Leper Settlement was operated from 1871 until 1969. The settlement has been an important collection center for leprosy patients in British Malaya before Sungai Buloh Leper Settlement was built in 1930s. During this period, six camps were built scattered around the island. One of the most important camps was Camp 5, completed in 1936. The camp was planned against the conservative idea of strict segregation where leprosy patients were segregated rigidly in prison-like environment. Camp 5 was planned in such ways where leprosy patients could freely conduct social-cultural events, practice their faiths, establish their own families, appointed as inmate workers, and etc. The houses were planned in clustered manner with well-planned agriculture plots and socio-cultural facilities. The planning layout of Camp 5 is an important historical clue to suggest how leprosy patients could have been segregated more humanely. Today, most of the structures in Camp 5 are in semi-ruined conditions. The available information is insufficient to support the current research. Therefore, this research had to rely on three methods; archival researches, interview and field works. Archival materials such as governmental annual reports and old illustrations will help to reconstruct its chronological developments, and the indexed remnants from the field works will be used to analysis and overlay with its chronological developments. Interviews are crucial to obtain deliberate information to reconstruct the previous living and built environment of Camp 5. By understanding the segregation idea implemented in Camp 5, researchers may be able to interpret and argue the theoretical discourse of modern segregations in dealing with diseases and suggest some historical lessons. 2014 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/61484/1/LimYongLong2014_PreliminaryFindingsforPulauJerejakLeperSettlement.pdf Ch'ng, Hui Jiun and Lim, Yong Long and Ng, Xin Yi (2014) Preliminary findings for Pulau Jerejak Leper Settlement: reconstructing the built and living environment of Camp 5. In: 5th Annual Conference. International Graduate Conference on Engineering, Science and Humanities 2014 (IGCESH2014), 19-21 August, 2014, Skudai, Johor.
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Ch'ng, Hui Jiun
Lim, Yong Long
Ng, Xin Yi
Preliminary findings for Pulau Jerejak Leper Settlement: reconstructing the built and living environment of Camp 5
description The purpose of this paper is to share the historical development of Camp 5, a leper camp on Pulau Jerejak. Pulau Jerejak Leper Settlement was operated from 1871 until 1969. The settlement has been an important collection center for leprosy patients in British Malaya before Sungai Buloh Leper Settlement was built in 1930s. During this period, six camps were built scattered around the island. One of the most important camps was Camp 5, completed in 1936. The camp was planned against the conservative idea of strict segregation where leprosy patients were segregated rigidly in prison-like environment. Camp 5 was planned in such ways where leprosy patients could freely conduct social-cultural events, practice their faiths, establish their own families, appointed as inmate workers, and etc. The houses were planned in clustered manner with well-planned agriculture plots and socio-cultural facilities. The planning layout of Camp 5 is an important historical clue to suggest how leprosy patients could have been segregated more humanely. Today, most of the structures in Camp 5 are in semi-ruined conditions. The available information is insufficient to support the current research. Therefore, this research had to rely on three methods; archival researches, interview and field works. Archival materials such as governmental annual reports and old illustrations will help to reconstruct its chronological developments, and the indexed remnants from the field works will be used to analysis and overlay with its chronological developments. Interviews are crucial to obtain deliberate information to reconstruct the previous living and built environment of Camp 5. By understanding the segregation idea implemented in Camp 5, researchers may be able to interpret and argue the theoretical discourse of modern segregations in dealing with diseases and suggest some historical lessons.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Ch'ng, Hui Jiun
Lim, Yong Long
Ng, Xin Yi
author_facet Ch'ng, Hui Jiun
Lim, Yong Long
Ng, Xin Yi
author_sort Ch'ng, Hui Jiun
title Preliminary findings for Pulau Jerejak Leper Settlement: reconstructing the built and living environment of Camp 5
title_short Preliminary findings for Pulau Jerejak Leper Settlement: reconstructing the built and living environment of Camp 5
title_full Preliminary findings for Pulau Jerejak Leper Settlement: reconstructing the built and living environment of Camp 5
title_fullStr Preliminary findings for Pulau Jerejak Leper Settlement: reconstructing the built and living environment of Camp 5
title_full_unstemmed Preliminary findings for Pulau Jerejak Leper Settlement: reconstructing the built and living environment of Camp 5
title_sort preliminary findings for pulau jerejak leper settlement: reconstructing the built and living environment of camp 5
publishDate 2014
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/61484/1/LimYongLong2014_PreliminaryFindingsforPulauJerejakLeperSettlement.pdf
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